
Prey was sold to Bethesda, Max Payne was sold to Take-Two Interactive, and Shadow Warrior was sold to Devolver. But some of its titles have been spread around the industry, like Duke Nukem, owned by Gearbox.

3D Realms owns about 30 intellectual properties from the good old days. It has no multiplayer gameplay at the moment.Ībout 15 people are working on the game. Ion Maiden is a prequel to Bombshell, which debuted in 2016. Ion Maiden will be available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Russian for $20. It will have a classically illustrated cover.” Scott Miller told us that this game should feel like it was built in Texas in the 1990s. “We are bringing 3D Realms back to its roots. “We wanted to make it as authentic as possible, but we didn’t want to limit it to the 1990s,” Schreiber said. If you go up to a wall socket, you can put your finger in and shock yourself. Many of the places in the environment are interactive. Interestingly, that’s a line lifted directly from the Duke Nukem Forever 2 script. Andrey Iones, Co-founder Saber Interactive, said: We have a deep appreciation for 3D Realms’ heritage and look forward to seeing them enter a new era and thrive. The art is hand-crafted in a pixelated style, with some modernizations. 3D Realms now becomes part of Saber Interactive. There’s a place where you can eat a McMonster Burger made up of salt and fat.ģD Realms is working with developer Voidpoint to make the game, which is based on the Build engine, which powered Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, and Shadow Warrior in the 1990s. You can shoot corpses and play soccer with their heads. Some of the enemies are comical, like the spiders with human skulls that try to attach to your face. But it can run on an old 486 computer with 4 megabytes of main memory. The game runs really fast, as much as 999 frames per second. The levels are pretty open, with many paths to the end.

The first level of the game has 28 secrets, and some of them you can only find by making your way to upper levels through some very difficult jumps. It’s an example of a typical over-the-top 3D Realms weapon. It automatically seeks out targets and explodes on contact, even if those enemies are hiding. In the demo, I thought the funniest thing was the Bowling Bomb, which you roll on the ground. She also has access to shotguns and grenades. Shelly’s signature revolver, Loverboy, brings enemies pain and players pleasure with single shots. The game has an arsenal of weapons, all with alternate fire modes or different ammo types.
